A broken model?

Good video from Jan. 14, 2014, by 2veritasium: “The Problem With Facebook” criticizing the business model. (h/t to that guy who recommended it on a Google chat I was listening to last week; wrote down the title of the vid, didn’t write down the guy’s name).

The researchers use the rapid rise and fall of MySpace as the archetype, comparing publicly available data from Google with the traditional SIR model of infectious disease. ‘SIR’ stands for Susceptible, Infectious and Recovered – the three groups that individuals are placed in with regards to a public disease…